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The 2017 Emmy Awards are over but it was a banner event for women and people of colour.

It's a welcome change after awards shows in previous years have been consistently slammed for their lack of diversity, with female-led shows Big Little Lies, Veep and The Handmaid's Tale winning big this year.

People of colour also won big, with Sterling K. Brown taking out his second back-to-back Emmy for his role in the series This Is Us and honouring Andre Braugher, the last black man to be nominated in the same category (for "Gideon's Crossing" in 2001) in his speech.

"It does feel different but for different reasons. I'm the first African-American in 16 years nominated. That kind of blows my mind," he said.

Donald Glover won the best comedy actor was the first African-American to win Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for "Atlanta," which he created. He thanked Trump in his speech for "making black people number one on the most oppressed list.

"He's the reason I'm probably up here," Glover said, acknowledging the entertainment industry's and the Emmys' tilt toward the nonstop political under President Donald Trump.

And Lena Waithe became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing, for "Master of None".

"The things that make us different, those are superpowers," Waithe said. "Thank you for embracing a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a little queer black girl from the south side of Chicago," she said, basking in a standing ovation from the theater audience.